Thursday, April 01, 2010

Although I try to give some meaningful details, when I write about a wine I try to focus more on context than on descriptions of flavor or aroma. That said, many of you have contacted me in the past few months asking me to me more specific about aromas and flavors, to use more and better descriptors.

Although at first I felt kind of sad about this, I tried it out on my own last night and it was a lot of fun. So thanks for your comments and requests, and here is the first example of a whole new type of wine writing here at Brooklynguy's site:

You douchebag! I bought reductions, essences, tinctures, a drip coffee machine, a produce stand, a yogurt franchise, flew round-trip from Chicago to Washington, took up smoking, and salted my own goddamn caramel... only to find that when I put them all in a blender, they tasted nothing like the 2007 Cupcake Cabernet. They did, however, taste exactly like the 2006. Glad it only cost me $325,000 to find out.